Home > House

For other meanings of the word House see House (disambiguation).

A house in its most general sense is a human-built dwelling with enclosing walls and a roof. It provides shelter against precipitation, wind, heat, cold and intruding humans and animals. When occupied as a routine dwelling for humans, a house is called a home (though animals may often live in the house as well, both domestic pets and "unauthorised" animals such as mice living in the walls). People may be away from home most of the day for work and recreation, but typically are home at least for sleeping.

A house generally has at least one entrance, usually in the form of a doorThis article is about the door as an architectural element. There is an article about The Doors whom were a four person musical band of the 1960s and early 1970s. decorated to appear inviting. A door is a structure in a wall that allows easy conversion be or a portalA portal may be: A grand entrance, as into a cathedral. A Web portal (a kind of Web site). A kind of remote procedure call interface. The structure through which a highway or railroad tunnel exits to the surface. Portal, Georgia is a small town in the Uni, and may have any number of windowArticles about other meanings include Window codename (In the 2nd World War), Window (astronomy), window (computing), window system, or X Window System. Window in a Japanese Onsen in hakone A window is an opening in an otherwise solid, opaque surface thros or none at all.

1 Types of house

See also list of house typesResidential dwellings can be built in a large variety of configurations. A basic division is between houses and flats (apartments, see below), but there are also many subdivisions, listed below. Houses Brownstone see Rowhouse Cottage Usually refers to a s.

There are three basic house types:

• houses standing on their own ( detached house houses)
• houses attached to one other house ( semi-detachedSemi-detached housing consists of pairs of houses built side by side as units sharing a party wall and usually in such a way that each house's layout is a mirror image of its twin. This type of housing can be thought of as being a half-way state between t houses)
• houses attached to two other houses, possibly in a row ( terraced (GB) or rowhouse (USA) houses).

In BritainThe word Britain is used to refer to the United Kingdom (UK): i. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (from 1927), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( 1801- 1927) or the United Kingdom of Great Britain ( 1707- 1801). terraced or semi-detached houses are the most common type of accommodation, with 27% of all British people living in a terraced house and 32% in semi-detached houses ( 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom). In the USA in 2000, 61.4% of people lived in detached houses and 5.6% in semi-detached houses, the rest living in rowhouses or apartments, except 7% living in mobile homes.

A treehouse is built in one or more trees; though its most common use is a fort or playhouse for children, it is increasingly commonly used as a house for adults.